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I believe I had the speed set at 8.5mph. Maintaining a constant speed is one of the the biggest advantages of using the app. I rendered that video at 48fps, no slow motion. I think that was my second flight using a litchi mission.Hi your video looks very smooth & slow..
Saw your note for the video on Youtube states the video was shot at 48fps. Did you then slow the video down and encode it at 24fps for the final video?
If you did not slow down the video, then could you please update what speed (horizontal speed) the drone was moving at when the video was shot? No matter how slow I try to fly the drone, I always find that movement is too fast in my videos.. would like to benchmark to a more optimum speed for slower movement..
The key to successful autonomous missions is to know your surroundings and area well. For my areas locally, I know that a minimum of 160' altitude puts me well above trees, power lines, and most buildings. The useful thing about the phantom camera is it has a bit of a tighter field of view, being 94°. This allows you to fly higher but it appears your lower in height on film. That allows a nice cushion of altitude. In this instance, 94° works in our favor. I don't mess around with altitude - I set it reasonably high.
I kind of feel like an autonomous mission is like making the phantom do a ballet. I have control of the speed, choreography, making it aim, turn, and angle just how I want to cover an area. Many movements look like it would be easy to fly manually and some could be, but it's deceiving looking too. It's almost impossible to manually fly a consistent shot perfectly and not need to reshoot it. It's also a huge help to pre-plan a mission, which ensures you fully cover an area of interest. That is next to impossible using the dji waypoints because they have to be flown first to set. Pre-planning missions make covering a wide area with distances from home point of 2k' possible in one take. Plan, fly, done- I'm in and out generally within 15 minutes and I know I have a perfect film. This mission I planned was much like that and would be next to impossible to safely fly without the aid of litchi.